>Everything’s great except I can’t run this
>Everything’s great except it doesn’t recognize this device
>Everything’s great except there’s a learning curve
>Conky
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#732Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure Apple is unavoidable if you work as a mobile app developer. I mean, no iOS SDK for Windows/Linux. If your work area is anything other than it, perhaps the Mac isn't necessary.
> If your work area is anything other than it, perhaps the Mac isn't necessary. How about photography and video production?
Ah, forgot about it.
Perhaps a yes, considering lots of photographers and video editors work on Mac.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#733Earlier quoted context omitted.
Easy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770
Ah, so karma is a thing on HN as well. That would explain it. Since 2001 I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Mint. I got rid of them at the first available opportunity. Elon Musk himself couldn't pay me enough to switch to Linux.
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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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When my dad (83) was looking to replace his ancient Win7 Dell PC I convinced him to buy a MacMini since he's had an iPad for a long time, and more recently an iPhone. Initially he was concerned about the "new" interface after using Windows since 3.11 days, but within an hour he was happy doing his usual "basic tasks" (email, basic Excel, Word for letters, printing, etc). He was amazed both his printers (colour/scanne…
Chromebooks are also pretty good if google sheets/docs would suffice for excel/word.
They usually work well with printers, but I've run into some situations where I was just plain unable to get it to work with my Brother laser printer after a certain ChromeOS update. They screwed up something with the CUPS drivers and it just never worked.
On MacOS at least I have a chance of being able to fix this stuff. ChromeOS is so locked down you can't even fix things.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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> Do CachyOS optimizations actually make any difference whatsoever? I know they enable certain optimization flags whenever building software, but that doesn't directly equate to performance improvements unless you're actually benchmarking and testing it. I switched from Windows 11 to Kubuntu a year ago, and then gave CachyOS a shot after hearing praise for it. I'm on a laptop with an AMD iGPU, and CachyOS's `znver4`…
That's actually pretty great! Have you observed any changes in your day-to-day usage, such as faster compilation times? If it's actually decently faster I might try it instead of playing with Gentoo to get better-optimized compilation flags.
I haven't benchmarked anything other than the initial tests with Geekbench. That said, it subjectively felt "snappier"/faster in terms of UI speed with KDE Plasma than Kubuntu. I've been a happy CachyOS user since.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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> I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest. Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either. I've also used Linux exclusively (in my case 25 years), but I also realize that with a few niche exceptions, there are few mass marketed products that feature the traditional Linux desktop as their primary UI. Desktop OS UI is hard. It takes investment in technology, product, and marketing all…
> Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either. Stupid analogy, the Linux version of that would be whatever french press you want to use. Buy your coffee ground or as beans and grind yourself, depending on preference. And for my girlfriend there's always the Starbucks equivalent (Debian stable with Gnome). Apple would be picked by modern slaves and sold in a capsule at 100,000% markup and it only fits t…
> Apple would be picked by modern slaves and sold in a capsule at 100,000% markup and it only fits their machines. Windows comes with pesticides for the "benefit of the user".
The exploitation of labor in developing countries in the electronics supply chain is a serious issue, and worth discussing, but it's not the dimension of the subject my comment was addressing.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#737I have... I switched to Bluefin, which is a branch of Universal Blue, which is flavour of Fedora. Sounds complicated, but in fact is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I get all the ease of use of something like macOS but pre-built with tools for development like distrobox, and then I can just build my dev environments and get shit done in no time, without having to worry about breaking updates or nuking the who…
Not that there aren't trust issues with bigger projects but don't folks worry that the further down the "branch of a flavour of of a branch of a flavour" chain they go the higher and higher the risk of someone sneaking nefarious code through becomes? I guess there's a natural barrier in that the lesser known code bases become less of a target. Sometimes I just find it wild with how much we talk about containers and s…
Universal blue images are built via public GitHub Actions runners. If you don’t trust them, fork it and use your own image.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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You are using a distro that is generally very behind on software versions and doesn’t bundle non free software (Debian) on a laptop with brand new hardware. Additionally, you are running a DE (cinnamon) which is really designed for a specific distro (Mint) which you are not using. If you want stuff to just work you might want to try using a more up to date distro with a mainstream desktop. Stock Ubuntu or Fedora woul…
debian 13 is using kernel 6.12 vs ubuntu 24 6.14. I don't think it's a kernel issue, and more that amd drivers aren't there yet for the new hardware. running the latest also is problematic, i.e. a new kernel upgrade that blows thing up. and that's the main difference between linux and windows, windows just works, osx just works, linux is a minefield of different quirks.
Fedora is 6.18, it’s like you did not notice the word Fedora, and chose shitty clone of Debian instead of Debian. Of course it worse, no need to prove that. Get Fedora.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#739It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…
Desktop Windows still has rough edges. Desktop MacOS still has rough edges. Desktop Linux still has rough edges. Pick your poison. Niche professional software may lack native Windows support or require workarounds. Windows has a strong grip in enterprise environments where it is desirable to remove desktop control from users. You have things like FreeIPA and Samba making weak offers beyond directory services in that…
I manage both, alongside macOS. There are heaps of things that are trivial to do on a Windows or macOS desktop fleet that are a headache on Linux.
macOS is the easiest endpoint platform to manage. Apple’s MDM capabilities are amazing, and don’t leave me wanting for much at all other than application control, but there are plenty of commercial apps to do this.
Windows (in an Active Directory environment) is pretty good, but Group Policy has grown unwieldy over the decades. Policies can conflict in strange ways, and Microsoft has no made no effort to keep their policy language consistent. Sometimes ‘enabled’ means a feature is enabled, other times it means it is disabled, and vice versa.
Deploying hardware-bound machine certificates for 802.1x, VPN etc to Windows or macOS is extremely easy. Takes 10 minutes to set up.
On Linux, this is a very significant engineering effort that would take months, assuming you happen to have people with the skills on your payroll at all.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#740Earlier quoted context omitted.
right - same here WRT windows partition. Not always using Live, but it gets used when it's necessary. I'm slightly disappointed that they haven't done the decent thing and released a Linux version, but .. ah well, what can ya do hey?
I'd be willing to shell out for a new license if they need that for making a Linux version... I guess next step is to fund some FOSS developer to actually add support for it to Wine, by force if must be :P Wonder if there is some way for developers to raise money for adding support for specific software to Wine? Might not be such a a bad idea.
Actually I saw this last night (but have yet to try it): https://usebottles.com/app/#abletonlive
usual disclaimers apply! :)